mHealth Study: Remote Monitoring Cuts Costs, Hospitalizations
A year-long remote monitoring program for patients with heart failure saved more than $8,000 per patient and reduced hospitalizations by more than 30 percent. The @Home study, conducted by Pennsylvania-based Capital Blue Cross and mHealth technology company Geneia, compared Blue Cross members equipped with Medtronic’s ZephyrLIFE home monitoring platform to a control group of non-monitored HF patients. The resulting reductions…